Thursday, January 15, 2009

Aircrafts and vehicles

As a war game, Fly! Clyde! will be populated with all sorts of airplanes, helicopters, tanks and so on. I did a lot of research to choose for the best elements, and made a list of the ones which taken together are the best possible combination of interesting designs, purposes, and fire types.

In the end I made a bit of a mish-mash of various vehicles from the two World Wars, since the game takes places somewhere around 1937.
Also, the nations are fictional, so I choose a bit of english and USA crafts for the enemy forces, while Clyde flies an airplane that historically was part of the German army, but you mustn't think that those countries are related to the game in any way.

I can't tell you too much, of course, or the game will be spoiled. Rest assured though that each vehicle you'll see has a real counterpart. I only took the freedom to deform the hulls a little bit to increase visibility because of the limited dimensions on the iPhone screen.
For example, the main character aircraft is a Fokker DR.I Dreidecker (yes the one flown by the Red Baron, called Fokker Somedecker in the game) and it's a really accurate reconstruction. I only enlarged the main body to make it more fat, because it was too tiny to be read on-screen. Look at how slender is the real version!...

If you are passionate about war vehicles, you're going to have fun with this game. We plan to include detailed info and pictures of the various enemies and characters along with their crafts, as an unlockable through the game. For example if in a level you see a tank, a new vehicle sheet is unlocked with dimensions, art, rendering (not always all together, eh!), accessible in the War Files in the main menu.

Hey, don't get angry with me if you spot a vehicle that took service after 1937!

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